- Authors
Originally by Paul Scott-Murphy, modified by William McBrine
- Version
0.16-wmcbrine
zeroconf.py is the implementation file; look at the end for examples of basic use. You can also view zwebbrowse.py to see how to browse for services, and zwebtest.py for an example of announcing them.
This fork is used in all of my TiVo-related projects: HME for Python (and therefore HME/VLC), Network Remote, Remote Proxy, and pyTivo. Before this, I was tracking the changes for zeroconf.py in three separate repos. I figured I should have an authoritative source.
Although I make changes based on my experience with TiVos, I expect that they're generally applicable. This version also includes patches found on the now-defunct (?) Launchpad repo of pyzeroconf, and elsewhere around the net -- not always well-documented, sorry.
- 0.16
- Under Python 3 on Windows, there was an unsuppressed warning on closing (reported as socket.EBADF on other platforms).
- 0.15
- Compatible with both Python 3.x and 2.x. The oldest working version is now 2.6.
- 0.14
- Fix for SOL_IP undefined on some systems - thanks Mike Erdely.
- Cleaned up examples.
- Lowercased module name.
- 0.13
- Various minor changes; see git for details.
- No longer compatible with Python 2.2. Only tested with 2.5-2.7.
- Fork by William McBrine.
- 0.12
- allow selection of binding interface
- typo fix - Thanks A. M. Kuchlingi
- removed all use of word 'Rendezvous' - this is an API change
- 0.11
- correction to comments for addListener method
- support for new record types seen from OS X
- IPv6 address
- hostinfo
- ignore unknown DNS record types
- fixes to name decoding
- works alongside other processes using port 5353
- (e.g. on Mac OS X)
- tested against Mac OS X 10.3.2's mDNSResponder
- corrections to removal of list entries for service browser
- 0.10
- Jonathon Paisley contributed these corrections:
- always multicast replies, even when query is unicast
- correct a pointer encoding problem
- can now write records in any order
- traceback shown on failure
- better TXT record parsing
- server is now separate from name
- can cancel a service browser
- modified some unit tests to accommodate these changes
- 0.09
- remove all records on service unregistration
- fix DOS security problem with readName
- 0.08
- changed licensing to LGPL
- 0.07
- faster shutdown on engine
- pointer encoding of outgoing names
- ServiceBrowser now works
- new unit tests
- 0.06
- small improvements with unit tests
- added defined exception types
- new style objects
- fixed hostname/interface problem
- fixed socket timeout problem
- fixed addServiceListener() typo bug
- using select() for socket reads
- tested on Debian unstable with Python 2.2.2
- 0.05
- ensure case insensitivty on domain names
- support for unicast DNS queries
- 0.04
- added some unit tests
- added __ne__ adjuncts where required
- ensure names end in '.local.'
- timeout on receiving socket for clean shutdown